CHRIS Tarrant is recovering in hospital after suffering a mini-stroke.

The presenter was taken ill on a flight back to London from Bangkok earlier this month and it has now been confirmed he suffered a stroke.

The 67-year-old is being treated at Charing Cross hospital, London, and will not head straight back to work, his manager has said.

Paul Vaughan said: "The doctors have confirmed he has had a mini-stroke, but he is made of stern stuff, Mr Tarrant, and hopefully he will be home by Thursday or Friday."

Tarrant had been filming in Asia and South America before falling ill as he flew home on March 1.

He bowed out from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? last month after a decade and a half in which the quiz show has become one of the most successful programmes in the world, inspiring spin-off games and Danny Boyle's hit film Slumdog Millionaire.